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...major addresses, Erich Fromm aired the best phrases of his "Socialist Manifesto." Viewing the "whole structure of modern man," Fromm, well-known psychoanalyst and prolific writer, said that "with all our education, people seem to be getting dumber than ever," drawing the best applause of the evening. We have machines that act like men, he said, and men who worship machines...
...Black Book, by Lawrence Durrell. A glittering, impudent, outrageous novel, all murk and manifesto, written by the author of the Alexandria tetralogy when he was 24 and had just made the heady discovery that he was a very good writer...
...Peale-Poling manifesto was also swiftly condemned by the New York...
...Murk & Manifesto. Surprisingly, this impudent performance is not as annoying as it might be. Durrell's spirits are so buoyant that they earn the reader's indulgence. His posturings are taken as overdrafts on respect well repaid by later books, and so is his blatant mimicry of such authors as Lawrence, Eliot, Aldous Huxley and Henry Miller (to whom Durrell sent the only typescript of the book with the coy instruction to read it and throw it in the Seine...
Very little happens in The Black Book; it is all murk and manifesto. One meets a menagerie of physical and spiritual cripples-Tarquin, a homosexual; Lobo, a whoremonger; Clare, a gigolo; Gregory, a poet whose feelings chafe against a talent one size too small. These tortured grotesques are insignificant, but they prefigure the Alexandria novels. So does the fetid brilliance of the passages in which